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ISAM Database Development
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 ISAM Database Development
 
 ■ The following keywords are used in Visual Basic to develop ISAM databases:
 
   ◄BEGINTRANS►         Marks beginning of ISAM transaction
   ◄BOF►                Returns true of current position is beginning of file
   ◄CHECKPOINT►         Writes open ISAM database buffers to disk
   ◄CLOSE►              Close ISAM database files
   ◄COMMITTRANS►        Commits database operations since last BEGINTRANS
   ◄CREATEINDEX►        Creates ISAM table index
   ◄DELETE►             Removes the current record from ISAM table
   ◄DELETEINDEX►        Removes an index from ISAM database
   ◄DELETETABLE►        Removes and ISAM table and indexes
   ◄GETINDEX$►          Returns name of current index of ISAM table
   ◄INSERT►             Adds new record to ISAM table
   ◄LOF►                Returns number of records in ISAM table
   ◄MOVEFIRST►          Makes first record the current record
   ◄MOVELAST►           Makes last record the current record
   ◄MOVENEXT►           Makes next record the current record
   ◄MOVEPREVIOUS►       Makes previous record the current record
   ◄OPEN (File I/O)►    Opens ISAM database file and table
   ◄RETRIEVE►           Gets current record and places it into variable
   ◄ROLLBACK►           Restores state of database
   ◄SAVEPOINT►          Marks save points within a transaction log
   ◄SEEKEQ►             Makes first equal to keyvalue the current record
   ◄SEEKGE►             Makes first greater than or equal to keyvalue current
   ◄SEEKGT►             Makes first greater than keyvalue the current record
   ◄SETINDEX►           Makes specified table index the current index
   ◄TEXTCOMP►           Compares order of two strings as sorted by ISAM index
   ◄TYPE►               Defines ISAM table type (columns in ISAM record)
   ◄UPDATE►             Updates current record in ISAM table
 
 See: ◄ISAM Data Types Summary►        ◄ISAM Naming Conventions►
      ◄ISAM Reserved Words►            ◄ISAMCVT Command-Line Options►
      ◄ISAMIO Command-Line Options►    ◄ISAMPACK Command-Line Options►
      ◄ISAMREPR Command-Line Options►  ◄Keywords by Task►
      ◄PROISAM Command-Line Options►   ◄PROISAMD Command-Line Options►